Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, was an unabashed Francophile. George Washington had France to thank for helping defeat the British at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War. Jefferson was dispatched to Paris as ambassador for the nascent American democracy,...

Labor bosses and corporate titans usually spend their time as adversaries trying to undo the other’s agenda. Not so with United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard and United States Steel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Mario Longhi, who came to Washington today to press for penalties...

Textron Systems, the defense division of Textron Inc., has plans to grow its international sales to 50 percent of revenue by 2016, up from more than 35 percent in 2013. The overseas business will help offset the loss of U.S....

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, in Beijing for one day of talks with top Chinese officials, was told that the country’s leaders are committed to opening up the world’s second-largest economy. What’s unclear is when that might happen. Lew, who...

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman has a tough job: Wrestling with dozens of foreign governments to hammer out the largest trade deals in history. An even harder task may be winning support at home. Senate Democrats and Republicans unloaded their...

Painted matryoshka dolls portraying world leaders including, left to right, U.S. President Obama, Russia's President Putin, France's President Hollande and Russia's Prime Minister Medvedev, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Business between the U.S. and Russia totaled $38.1 billion in 2013, according to the Commerce Department. Imports — the values of goods and services entering the U.S. from Russia — totaled $26.96 billion, the 18th highest level in the world....

That’s China’s trade surplus — in January. It is the widest gap between imports and exports reported by Beijing in a January since 2009. Yet, the growth projected for China’s economy this year marks the slowest pace in 24 years....

President Barack Obama wants to work with Congress to get fast-track authority to help seal trade deals including a Pacific-region accord. He said so last night. What he didn’t mention in his State of the Union address: The Trans-Pacific Partnership...

Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker served Detroit a helping of Washington’s alphabet soup today, introducing the city to wonky acronyms like TPP, TPA and T-TIP as she seeks to sell President Barack Obama’s proposed trade deals. “Together, these agreements that are...

Nearly two weeks into his Hawaiian vacation on the island of Oahu in which he’s mostly steered clear of politics, President Barack Obama golfed today with New Zealand’s prime minister at the Kaneohe Bay golf course. While the foursome with...